Good or Bad to keep comments on blog ??

Hello everyone, I have a blog related to printing services and has some good informative articles also. Readers are making some comments on my articles with inbuilt link, I know this links are nofollow but if I keep this links of my blog with nofollow inbuilt link, than it’ll be good or harmful from the point of SEO.

Please suggest me…

Thanks

Shubham Barot (SSB)

 

Just be sure that they are NOT spamming your blog JUST to get a backlink... 1 or 2 QUALITY comments could be helpful, but 100 junk comments are not a very good idea...

 

If you are using nofollow for links that its OK but also check those comments looks legitimate and the links inside should not lead to any kind of harmful site so that your visitors won't loose trust from your site too.

 

You should use moderation option avoid from spamming, some people do spam just to make backlinks, I have own a blog, I noticed some time people say only nice info and leave a link to your website.

 

It's fine to have comments on your site, just be sure that you are regulating the links in the comments and Names/URLs.

Having outbound links to garbage and low quality sites is not a good thing and you can be penalized for that.

 

I think Good is to "keep the comments" but what Bad is "having external links within them" because links is the last things that is going to hurt down your ranking.

 

Take a look on this video first:


About the backlinks - if are no-follow then there are not affecting your site. If you do let them to be followed then, as John Dave said above you will be hurt and you should remove them. The best is to add a moderation tool for your comments and all will be fine.

 

Just moderate them. Good comments add content to your page so they bring value. If comment comes with backlink I would keep it if it isn't spam.

 

Yes, keep a close eye on your comments section!

If it aggregates lots of spammy comments with inappropriate links, it can be a red flag for Google. Use comment pre-moderation option and approve only worthy ones.

 

What you want to avoid is having your page turn into an "bad neighborhood" where there are 300 outbound links in the comment area pointing to malicious websites.

 

Banning all comments outright is not a great idea for visitor participation, obviously, but it's just about inevitable that if you own a blog and post content regularly, you'll get spammed with people using software to build links.

Depending on what platform you're using, you can find some good plugins to automatically block out the bots/software. They do this via either blocking known IP's used to spam and a range of other things.

You should also get some extra security measures in place, like a plugin that makes people solve a small math equation or something before being able to submit their content. That usually weeds out a lot of the spam.

 

The comments is not more than 100. Because Google see your blog as a auto approval blog. Which violates the guidelines of the webmasters.

 

I have been through your problem. Unfortunately, like it or not, most of the unprovoked comments will be made only as a way of leaving a link. Check out that link. If what they lead to is not harmful for your own site in matters of reputation and competition, let them be.

 

As Patco said above, some quality comments are good with no-follow tag is better than 100 comments.

 

Some people will comment on many blogs with same text like, Thank you for the info, great info...etc, no need to add those number of comments for your Article, It is good to keep minimum number of quality comments which are helpful for others to read, raising queries about Article and provide answers for those questions.
@rozerr - Its very clear "some quality comments are good with no-follow tag is better than 100 comments",

 

If you do have comment on a site avoid the mistake of using nofollow links. Not recommending allowing commenter's to have dofollow links, just the link benefit that would pass through the nofollow link is deleted by Google so by having nofollow links you are causing SEO damage.

Seems everytime I read a forum I see advice to use nofollow, I get into a discussion and to save time search Google for

nofollow deletes link benefit

Since 5 of the results are mine it seems I'm on a crusade against nofollow

With the right setup comments can be an awesome SEO tool, I have my reasonable size comments indexed in their own right by Google with their own unique title tags and they generate SERPs. The first result in the Google search I suggest above goes to a comment of mine http://stallion-theme.co.uk/stallion-wordpress-seo-plugin/?cid=598 there's around 300 indexed comments on that site, some have some nice Google SERPs.

I allow comments, but either disable the option to add an author link and manually delete links added directly to comments (I can add them and they are dofollow, but delete links added by others). So my comments have dofollow links, user comments they don't have any links: I don't own sites to provide a place for webmasters to get free links, if they want to comment to have a discussion, great, if not, not my problem on my sites I have over 50,000 comments so won't miss the ones looking for backlinks (they tend to post rubbish short comments anyway).

David Law

 

Only approve quality comments, no spammy comments

 

No follow link drops - how do they make any difference, they don't. Also - why don't you visit some links to see - if there is a real person behind them.

 

2 things check only. Comment and Link. If abusive comment does not publish also link.